The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-13
MISCELLANEOUS.
-Sopchoppy is the name of Florida

Week in Minneapolis. He probabl,
went on the theory that week wa
worth more than Chicago Jour
nal
-Vagrant-"Why are you here il
the dock?" Sharper-"FOr raising ,
check. Why are you here?" Vagran
because / couldn't raise ONE
Boston Budget.
The Inconvenience of having two
wives, both living and looking foI
blood, has caused a Texas editor tc
evapOrate to South America -4rkanSa!
Gazette.
If Jim Jenkins don't stop shooting
our windows out there'll be trouble
this is no rented house, and the win.
dows cost money If he wants 10 shoot
at us he must come inside.-HGWesUiLLe
(Ey) Pla;ndealer.
AT st. Augustine. Fla, few lay.
since A. NJ. Lopez, while at work tear.
ing down Misson's building on St
George street. found an Old-fashioned
pistol Embedded in the walls. 1t is OF
queer design and undoubtedly of great
age.
The house in which Isaiah Colby
and his wife were murdered at Cherry
Run, Pa, is nearly cut to pieces by
relic hunters, and one of them has the
shoes taken from Colby after the MUIR
der on exhibition in his store at Lock
Haven.
The Pan Yam mine near Helena,
NJ. T., is one of the richest of recent
strikes in the Territory. 1t was dis
covered by John Waulshagan, Ia
borer. During the last two weeks in
August $500 worth of ore was taken
out of the mine.
N. H. Wilson, of MERGED, Cal, has
just received some Egyptian wheat
5000 years old, which was found in the
coffin of an Egyptian prince. while I'M
rolling the mummy. Prof. Gilden, of
Boston, brought the wheat to the United
States in 1850.
Omaha Dame (reading) - ''The
King has just begun suit for divorce
against his wife, Chicago Dame
Il didn't hear the first part. What
King?" 1.-The King of the Society
Islands" 30. l often wondered why
they were called Society Islands. -
Omaha World.
The three-year-old son of Michael
Curron. of Susquehanna, n. Y, was
seized with commissions and a doctor
was called. Suspecting that the boy
had been overeating, the doctor gave
him an emetic and soon after the child
elected a live lizard two and half
inches long. The boy is now all right.
For some time it was thought
ghost had taken up its abode in Frey's
mine, near Brownsville, Pa, and timor-
Gus miners gave its quarters a wide
berth. II was discovered that a bull
calf with long chain on its neck had
wandered in there to get away from the
flies and was unable to find its way out.
Omaha Invalid-''O, dear, SO the
doctor has sent me some more pills"
Husband-"Pills?" Eyes; didn't he
tell YOU what they were? I'm sure by
their looks they are blue mass pills, too.
But how big they are.'' Great Escu-
lapius! Are You talking about the con-
tents of that box! sent you that my
self They are not pills, they are new
peaches, "-Omata World.
Sharks are accused of causing the
great scarcity of soft crabs in the waters
hereabout this summer They are I'M
usually numerous and bold, and may
be seen any day swimming about on
the flats. exploring the water-grass with
their blunt noses. They 60 into the
coves that are shedling-places of crabs
and destroy all the soft ones they can
Baltimore Sun.
The gathering of hundreds of B-mar-
,irS in and around the public squares
every day at Martinsville, Henry
County, Va, has excited no little Curl
osity lately. An examination has dis
closed the fact that they were making
deliberate and apparently systematic
war upon the English sparrows. the
victory invariably remaining with the
martins. They have now. it is said.
literally whipped the sparrows out of
The place.
The subject of spiders is an ex-
tremely interesting one, and may be
followed with much profit in the way of
amusing information. One of tho Curl
ous points is the difference in the sexes.
Van Hasselt has made the amusing
calculation that if the same difference
in size existed between man and woman
is we find in the sexes of spiders a man
six feet high and weighing so pounds I,
could not lind partner less than sew
enty-five feet in height or weighing less
:han two hundred thousand pounds.
Mr.. Eric Bruce. who has worked |
put the idea of signaling at night by a
captive balloon lighted inside by cleo
:ric incandescent lamps, has just COM
pleted one for the Belgian government. |
Mr.. Bruce's latest ballon is fifteen feet |
in diameter and 1000 cubic feet in
capacity. It is made of vanished !
cambria. ard is translucent. Six Edi-
son and Swan lamps of eight to ten
are mounted inside, and |
the current is supplied by an f. P. S.
of twenty-five cells of the
eleven S type in teak-boxes.
When the Emperor Charles V. of |
Spain retired to the monastery of st.
Yuste he took with him Torriano, his |
in order to while away
the time by constructing the movements
Of clocks So wonderful were some of !